Authors

Austin Williams is the editor of Drawing magazine. His interests include a number of artistic subjects, in particular contemporary drawing, and he is also a lover of literature and movies. His favorite artists include Durer, Guercino, Degas, Menzel, Cezanne, and Blakelock. His favorite book about art is Michael Frayn's Headlong, and his favorite movie about art is Orson Welles' F for Fake.

Brian Riley is the managing editor for Drawing magazine. He first became interested in art
as a child, specifically drawing, but drifted away from the visual arts
as he grew older, gravitating towards writing while in college. His
position at AA has offered him the opportunity to reinvigorate his early
passion and continue his education.

Courtney Jordan is the editor of Artist Daily. For her, art is one
of life’s essentials and a career mainstay. She’s pursued academic studies of
the Old Masters of Spain and Italy as well as museum curatorial experience,
writing and reporting on arts and culture as a magazine staffer, and acquiring
and editing architecture and cultural history books. She hopes to recommit
herself to more studio time, too, working in mixed media.

Shen loves making the flat surface come to life and adding color to a
world often seen only in shades of gray. A professional artist
and entrepreneur for over 25 years, she lives to discover new
techniques, mix media, and make difficult concepts simple! You will
often find her painting live at events of all kinds to "wow" her
audience. ShenStudio.com.

Immersed in the art world is just where Jennifer King wants to be.
Thanks to her long career in the art-instruction business--she was the
editor of several leading artists' magazines--she has had incredible
opportunities to meet and interview many of the finest living artists of
our times. Jennifer paints primarily outdoors, but also in her home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Marion Boddy-Evans is an artist and writer now living on the Isle of Skye in
Scotland, a part of the world known for its striking landscape and dramatic weather (both endlessly inspiring for a painter!). She has been writing on Painting for About.com since 2002, exhibits and teaches workshops at Skyeworks Gallery in Portree, and rarely goes anywhere without a sketchbook.

Husband and wife team John Hulsey and Ann Trusty created the website, The Artist's Road
- Painting the World's Beautiful Places. The Artist's Road inspires
with practical art tips and painting techniques for the traveling
artist, video painting tutorials and demonstrations, workshop resources,
artist profiles and interviews and remarkable painting locations. The
Artist's Road is an artist community for oil, watercolor and pastel
artists. Articles cover intriguing art travel experiences artists have
had while painting the world's beautiful places.

Patricia Watwood has studied painting with Jacob Collins at the Water
Street Atelier, and also with Ted Seth Jacobs at Ecole Albert Defois.
She earned her MFA with honors from New York Academy of Art. Watwood
paints nudes, figures, portraits and still lifes in the classical
tradition. Her paintings draw on allegorical, mythological, and
narrative themes. She continues the classical pursuits of
representational painting, with an eye on the contemporary world.